Can we say the obvious for a second?
Good decision. Everyone needs to be able to see this. It’s important, especially in this climate.
Something this important, we all need to witness, no matter which way the verdict goes.
Except the people that need to watch it are going to refuse and call it corruption. And still have extremely strong, unmoveable, opinions about it.
Same as the Jan 6th hearing
They’ll get their out of context and misleading soundbites from the right wind media overlords, which will only reinforce their blind faith in their lord and savior trump.
Oh that’s a good point though.
On one hand the media won’t be able to resist actually covering the trial but on the other hand if they do that they’ll be informing their viewership, and that can’t happen.
Except the people that need to watch it are going to refuse and call it corruption.
And that, even if it’s true or not, doesn’t really matter.
The point is, this is the first time one of our leaders has been put on trial, it’s something that all the people of the nation need to witness, regardless of its effect, or outcome. We can’t just be told the outcome, we need to see it with our own eyes.
What does this heat have to do with it?
it will keep people indoors
What’s best is everyone will see the evidence.
Not really. The people who need to see and believe the evidence will never see it and will deny that it is anything but lies.
This should be the top comment
It is
lol it was 0 points when I said that.
This is cool as Biden continues out his communist regime. Let the down votes flow on behalf of CNN because half of you can’t see the other picture. Trump sucks I see that. But fuck y’all love these grocery prices. And diesel prices cause I can’t work without it. My 3 kids like to eat too and in this budget we can’t even afford that.
These prices were coming whoever was in the White House. That’s the result of the economy crashing under the former guy.
Why do you have a diesel vehicle anyway? My wife and I have one of the most fuel efficient vehicles on the road. 11 gallon tank, and gets over 30 mpg.
I laugh at all of the dumbasses driving around in Ford F150s and Dodge Rams guzzling expensive dinosaur juice. Those guys are morons, paying the “dumb boy tax”, and I’m sure they complain about it, too. 🤷
A Honda Civic can’t tow a trailer of machinery, or haul material to a job
Sure, but there are vehicles between a Civic and a F-350. Small trucks like the Colorado come to mind, I have an Avalanche, but I don’t use it with its towing capacity ever. The last time I did was a year and a half ago. It would have cost me much less to rent one than the extra fuel it uses. Most people who have big trucks only use their capacity once every few years or never at all. Often times a crossover works better than a truck, as you can fit 2 x 4s, tools, and stuff in the hatch and use its towing capacity to haul a small trailer when you need it. It’s not hauling a backhoe to the job site, but how many backhoes do you need?
Biden? Communist? LMFAO.
But fuck y’all love these grocery prices.
No one “loves” the prices of anything. But that’s largely due to Coronavirus, the disease that Trump said at least 38 times would “disappear” and denied for months on end while it continued to spread into a pandemic.
And low interest rates that his cronies took advantage of to get rich during a crisis.
Anyone a big enough drunk to take a shot every time Trump, himself, tries to object?
Do you want to give everyone alcohol poisoning?!
I think drinking that many shot glasses of water would kill you, honestly
What if you take a drink every time he tries to object to his own defense? I’m pretty sure taking a shot when he objects to anything would kill even the most experienced alcoholic.
Maybe he’ll just do like what he did in the debate with Hillary: “Wrong.”
How much you wanna bet he’s never held in contempt.
What about every time he’s held in contempt? That would be much more modest. More my speed, I think.
I still think you’re flirting with death there. You should augment it to every time Trump holds the judge in contempt.
“No contempt! No contempt! You’re in contempt!”
“ERECTIONJECTION YOUR JUDGESHIP! somethingsomethingorangewordsalad” - Trump
/sigh
Wait, does that even count?
I read this as “Erection Ejection” and for some reason that shit alone cracked me up, then thinking of Trump saying, “Erection Ejection!” cracked me up more. Well done, I needed the laugh.
I’m saying this next time I finish, my wife will be thrilled.
Mine is waiting on me to finish walking the dogs.
I’ll report back about how it goes.
Pray for me boys.
I’m back.
2 days I’ve been crawling.
Abort mission. Don’t…do…it. Gaaah.
He’ll be confused more than half the time.
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Fastest way to end stage cirrhosis
Ask the popcorn eating will counteract the alcohol, digestion-wise.
Wouldn’t he be charged with contempt if he did that?
They should add some twitch integration too, 10,000 bits and the defendant has to floss.
Donation meme soundboard
I’m picturing a lot of psychotic TikTok “yes yes ice cream so good gang gang”
Fawx News: “Now back to continuing coverage of paint drying. Make sure to stay tuned because we have Hunter Bidens dick pics as well! Laptop! Biden Crime Family! NO! DO NOT TOUCH THAT DIAL! NOOOOOOOO!!!”
BENGHAAAAAAAZI! EEEEEEEEMAIL!
The last big ‘Hitler is still alive’ movie was 1978’s ‘The Boys From Brazil.’ Extrapolating from that, I think we’ll see the last attack on Hilary Clinton in the early 2100’s.
What about Look Who’s Back?
I hope he suddenly goes all sovereign citizen and handles his own defense.
He should. After all, doesn’t he know more about the law than anyone? And he’s a stable genius too. Sounds like he should save the money he’d spend on his lawyers and just handle his own defense. I’m sure he’d win easily in court, right? (Barely manages to contain laughter)
He pays lawyers?
Sadly he can probably get a volunteer at this point. Set for life if you win the case, if you lose you blame the Deep State
Any lawyer who works for Trump likely asks for cash in advance. Either that or the lawyer is so bottom of the barrel and has drunk the kool-aid so much that they essentially are agreeing to work for free. (Because Trump WILL refuse to pay them whether he wins or loses.)
At the rate he’s going through lawyers who are willing to jump in front of the train for him he might actually have to. He might not be able to find a lawyer who’s willing to defend his sorry ass.
Trumpty Dumpty the sovcit 🤣
AM I BEING DETAINED
Sadly this will only be watched as justice porn for the left, the right won’t even care.
Everyone likes justice porn in America. The OJ trial was one of the most watched TV events in history at the time.
Well it’s about to be topped.
I wont be participating. wake me up when the criminal is behind bars. everything else is posturing.
I’m pretty sure a trial to put someone behind bars is the opposite of posturing.
Judicial proceedings is anything but posturing.
There’s a 50/50 chance you’ll be asleep for a loooooong time.
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People who think the legal process is just postering sound very similar to Trumpers to me.
Yeah I mean I was talking about the broadcasts not the legal process but ok buddy whatever you say idc
Let me say the obvious part: Trump’s cult has already intimidated lawmakers, witnesses, prosecutors, civil servants and judges. They decried this as a witch hunt before they even knew the facts! They stormed the Capitol to keep trump in power! They are talking about jailing his political opponents and instituting a genuine dictatorship! This must be open to all and published as it happens…
“Posturing”!? You know words have meaning, right…?
I don’t know about that. An awful lot of conservatives are bending over backwards to explain why Trump was justified in breaking the law multiple times. They certainly do care, and some people have even died over it. Remember the guy who tried to go after the FBIfield office in Cincinnati, OH?
I’ve heard some arguments saying that if Trump “knew” the election was rigged, he had a moral imperative to do whatever was necessary to maintain the union. The fact that the charges exist at all is proof of conspiracy, and the trial is just a parade. While I don’t agree, it’s hard to get thru to people that don’t agree on the same objective reality.
Turns out if you lie often enough and about something and just keep repeating it, people will start to believe it.
There’s unfortunately, also some evidence to the contrary that he privately knew he lost and did all this crap anyway.
Nevermind the phone call where he asked the Georgia secretary of state to find him 11,780 votes. But, if that’s not enough to convince people he’s making shit up, nothing will convince them.
Unfortunately, I’m dumb at psychology, and I have no idea how you would deprogram these people.
For groups like this reprogramming usually starts with facing the wall.
What does “facing the wall” mean?
firing squad presumably
It’s like when the last thing a mosquito sees is it’s ass when it hits your windshield.
The argument that someone saying they “knew” something, without being able to provide a shred of evidence to support the claim, is somehow direct proof of said claim is, flat out, retarded. They’re not logicians.
For me it will be 1/3 Justice porn and 2/3 I’m living through history titillation.
Yeah. While I absolutely have a bias and want to see this fucker convicted, I feel like no matter what, it’s going to have at least one “Where were you when…” moment.
Almost every generation has a couple. Where were you when JFK was shot? When the Challenger exploded? During 9/11? When Columbia burned up?
I mean, obviously, reading the verdict is going to be there, but I feel like there’s going to be some real courtroom horseshit / ooohhhh shiiit moments too.
Wouldn’t it be grand if we could end it on a high note, and stop thinking “I’m living through history” every 1-3 years?
Oh, to know boredom.
I was alive for the Columbia explosion, 9/11, the Challenger explosion, and Reagan’s attempted assassination. I saw them all as highlight reels on TV hours after the facts. I saw OJ’s glove escapade on the evening news. I expect there to be a Trump trial moment like that, but I don’t need to see it live, and I definitely don’t need to sit through hour after hour of courtroom procedure waiting to see that one moment.
I’m glad the trial will be recorded for posterity. That seems like the best way to answer claims of shenanigans in any trial. Actually watching the trial, all the way through, seems a little too much like watching Nascar hoping to see a big crash.
seems a little too much like watching Nascar hoping to see a big crash.
NASCAR is not just about watching cars going around in a circle waiting for a crash.
It’s “a day at the beach” for those who don’t have an ocean nearby. Tailgate parties and beautiful people dressed for the occasion. A reason to relax and enjoy.
Username checks out.
Username checks out.
In case you meant that as a slight, I live on one of the coasts, and have never been to a NASCAR event.
Not a slight, it was a mademesmile perspective. Something a Cosmic Cleric might say when someone belittles something they don’t fully understand. I’ve never been to one either but the comment made me want to go to there.
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Never thought an empty old man, twiddling his thumbs, would draw me in more than the countless content streaming services have to offer, but here we are.
I think it’s going to be the exact opposite. They’ll make a mockery of the justice system and turn it into a circus. The media will report every day and Drumph will keep his name continuously talked about. Meanwhile his team will watch what is reported nightly so they can strategize a narrative for “his viewers” while at the same time going as close to whatever line(s) as they can without crossing, but still keeping it a spectacle. It’ll be even worse than the 4 years he was president.
Alex Jones tried that, it didn’t really work out for him. It will depend on the judge.
Perhaps, but Alex could never say “you can’t do that to an ex-president.”
Jones did say all kinds of other dumb shit, but not that.
Trump also has a slightly more rabid following.
Trump will just play the wounded lamb for a nationwide audience, 1/3rd of which will lap it up.
Trials are about the facts tho and as they come out frump can’t really attack the facts. He can’t speak out during the trial so I’m not sure what you guys think he’s gonna even be able to do much less get away with.
The place where it’ll matter is in the breakdowns by pundits. It will be very hard for the right wing machine to build viable defense talking points when the facts are so clear.
Their defense is already established. It’s a “witch hunt”, “corruption”, “politically motivated”. Delegitimizing the current authority, where this kind of act is deemed illegal, is the goal. We have too many “uneducated” people, looking for “love”, in this country.
True, but u saw him lose a lot of support during the Jan 6th trials as they simply played the videos from that day. The trial will be largely the same. Evidence presented, cut and dry and there’s no ability for the right wing news cycle to spin this as not a crime.
I hope you’re right.
They cross the lines every day. Just a little. Problem is, the lines moves to compensate, instead of standing their ground.
I was going to say that the conspiracy theorists would watch it simply to figure out all the ways this is a Jewish-space-laser-controlled judge presiding over an adrenochrome -addicted jury, with all the officers of the court being lizardmen in humanskin.
Then I realized that was simply too much effort for them; they’ll just get their conspiracies from Fox and Tucker, and Joe Rogan as usual.
You know, I’m getting real tired of you goyim knowing about our laser.
Tis a joke but I am actually jew
This is what I should have said to begin with
Fuck ‘em.
This should 100% be televised. This affects us all. This was the attempted overthrow of our democracy and justice should not be hidden.
There is way more benefit then problem with this IMHO.
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I’m also anticipating a spike in stochastic terror
I’m wholeheartedly behind the WGA & SGA, but god bless Georgia for coming in clutch with content over the next year plus.
That’s a brilliant way to look at this
Wonder what sponsors they’ll have… Will the judge ask us to smash the like button?
It’ll be funded via concurrent 24/7 American Truck Sim stream (hosted by Will Smith) + charity raffle
I was thinking more like the following:
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“Remember to like and subscribe if you like what you see!”
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[note: the per-mille is intentional]
They’ll probably demand we “dab on the notification bell”
Out-fucking-standing. I am absolutely going to watch this. It’ll be the first Trump footage I’ve voluntarily watched in quite a while.
So we’re clear, this is not the revolution
The revolution will be monetized
It’s the opposite. It’s the last defense of our current form of government.
It’s a marketing campaign
For the truth, yes.
The campaign audience of Trump followers don’t care about that.
I am not going to watch any of that.
When he was on the NPR news cycle five times a day I started yelling and cursing uncontrollably to the point where I was diving at the radio to turn it off or change the station so that I would not freak the fuck out.
It doesn’t matter where Trump is. I don’t want to be there. It is a defilement to view him.
Practice stoicism my friend. Ppl on the left freaking out is exactly what they want. Treat trump and the gop the same way you treat clowns…laugh at them.
It’s the thing they fear the most…loss of narrative.Best I can do is exude the overwhelming smugness of a 17th century Scottish trader who just gonvinced some Englishmen to buy goods for way over market price.
Eh .little wins
Clowns like gacy maybe. I can’t even laugh anymore
Me either. However, I look forward to Legal Eagle breaking down the highlights.
it’s crazy that trump has basically trained us all to be able to understand him because he’s basically incoherent. in speeches he alternates between pre-written sections that he is clearly struggling to read, and completely thoughtless ad-libs like “many people are saying this” which he will say about literally anything. and in more spontaneous formats he’s just all over the fucking place, he just leaves a trail of sentence fragments behind him until he’s decided he’s talked for an appropriate amount of time. and his voice, i mean, he sounds like mark hamill’s joker after dental anesthesia. they should play his speeches on speakers mounted to the underside of cargo ships to repel whales
mark hamill’s joker after dental anesthesia
Wow, is that ever accurate.
they should play his speeches on speakers mounted to the underside of cargo ships to repel whales
You should consider a career in comedy.
I get it. I always try to tune in for these kinds of things though, the somewhat boring dense slow trials, because I want to be better informed to counteract any right wing rhetoric I encounter. In particular IRL.
plus it’s more mundane factual shit so I’m here for that, but if he treats it like the debates idk if I could all the interrupting to make no point just to get sound bites and derail the other person.
I think him in a courtroom will be different, perhaps startlingly so. He won’t be able to just say whatever he wants, he’ll have to actually try to make a logical coherent case. Which, being impossible for him personally, means that I think we will not hear much from him. His legal team will do most of the talking, if he has any brains at all.
if he has any brains at all.
Important caveat. We may hear a lot from him after all!
He won’t be at the center of the action. He’ll be sitting and shutting up and letting his lawyers talk for him. And of course trying not to look guilty when the prosecution details his crimes.
I too have avoided listening or watching him. This might be a really different thing.
It doesn’t matter where Trump is. I don’t want to be there. It is a defilement to view him.
I feel you.
My word, that is delicious.
Free media coverage of anything Trump does tends to boost Trump’s popularity, even if a normal person would see it as stupid or embarrassing. So I’m in two minds about this.
This is the 2016 election strategy all over again. “If we blast negative Trump coverage 24/7 people will finally wake up to how evil/racist/dumb/etc. he is!”
This is going to be bigger than the OJ trial. He’s raised close to 10 million off of the mug shot alone. If he’s making that much off the “movie poster”, how much do you think he’s going to profit from the full-length “feature film”?
In 2016 they kept up stupid narratives about how “shrill” or “unlikable” Hillary was to “some” people as well. Also, they gave horse race style/ bothsiderist coverage to right’s utter nonsense about BENGHAAAAAAZIIII and things like email servers.
They also decidedly did NOT give the real backstory on donnie and did absolutely nothing to really vet him for an American public that mostly only knew him from being a Bigly Successful Bidnessman on a game show someone else built around his fake image…
Even for the famous tape where he is caught bragging about sexual assault, they chose to focus on the p-word and the pearl-clutching over how that is “locker room talk”, when the key issue is really that he’s bragging about sexually assaulting women because of the power imbalance, and not because he said the word “pussy”. Yeah, the media absolutely flubbed even that much.
Flubbed, or just did like they always do and treat him (and his chud army) with kid gloves? I doubt they’d have used the “oh my stars please get me to the fainting couch” strat had Hillary bragged about grabbing a dude by the dick.
Flubbed, or just did like they always do and treat him (and his chud army) with kid gloves?
Oh I have little doubt that quite a few within the media absolutely delighted in the idea of giving him lots and lots of airtime in order to fatten their wallets, and also a good deal of them really seem to just hate and despise the Clintons, especially Hillary, so they took every opportunity to take a shot at her. I do think quite a few thought that it was one big freaking joke and he could “never” win and engaged in lots and lots of bothsiderism over fears that the right will declare they are biased, hilariously, for the left.
The right declares the media are all liberals anyway, no matter what they do, so I have no idea why there are so many in the media that bend over backwards to do the “objective” bothsiderist things.
Even when he’s officially declared ineligible in enough states to matter, conservatives will continue to waste their money on him instead of viable candidates. Let him bleed them dry. He can count all their money from behind bars.
I understand but he’s going to make hay out of this no matter what. The good news is that this isn’t a debate with an imperfect moderator; it’s a judge who can slap real sanctions on people for breaking decorum. Trump won’t be in control.
Yeah but it’s extremely important for the future of this country for these trials be freely available so we all have the facts (even if people choose to ignore them).it’s just important 10-20 years later so the facts don’t get erased.
US treason trial drinking game, what are the rules?
Don’t die/alcohol poisoning
Omnomnomnom
Solid 2 piece, fries and a drink
I wonder what Fox will find to run instead.
We now go live to San Francisco where a homeless person is probably gay and Hispanic.
Wow, the criminality of it all. Wish we had Trump as our president, then we would be crime free!!
Try moving to Texas, where they eliminated all rapes
Texas Governor be like “if she’s forced to carry the child till birth and marry the rapist then it doesn’t count in statistics!”
What a fucking joke dude
Any random car chase, if that famous Hannity clip is any indication.
This is going to backfire in a big way. Whole lot of people seem to think this will be justice porn or somehow convince his base of his criminality but it is going to do no such thing. According to one poll, the majority (77%) of likely GOP primary voters are already convinced the trial is “politically motivated”, with only 8% more concerned about him attempting to overturn an election. You can take a look at some polling here, there are other even more troublesome results as well: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-poll-indictments-2023-08-20/
No matter how awful, contradictory, and ridiculous he will be in that court room, this is likely going to be a massive boon for Trump, and his followers are going to see it as the realization of their own fears of persecution. This man is an ascendant fascist leader, not the sad sack finally facing consequences that liberals so desperately want him to be, and the effect this will have on mobilizing his base to continue to escalate will be immense. These people do not give a single fuck about “”“law and order”“” no matter how much they pretend they do, stop assuming they will just accept things when he is found guilty. They won’t.
I’m just trying to help people realize how dangerous and precarious this whole situation is. People were laughing and making jokes when he first announced his candidacy, and kept on doing it right up to the point that he won the election. Don’t make the same mistake again, because while yall are cracking jokes, him and his ghouls are hurting people. They are passing discriminatory laws, they are in the supreme court setting dangerous precedents and overturning inconvenient ones, and they are patrolling the streets looking for people to brutalize and throw in jail. They are committing hate crimes and becoming increasingly radicalized and mobilized.
Stop pretending this is entertainment or business as usual, it’s not. I’m begging you to understand that the fascists are already here, and the longer they’re underestimated the better their chances of seizing control.
This is going to backfire.
First of all, never try to get inside a conservative’s head if you are going to come out with a loser defeatism attitude. 2nd, Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump will not have any control of the trial at all.
of likely GOP primary voters are already convinced the trial is “politically motivated”
That is the most important reason why the trial needs to be televised.
Stop pretending this is entertainment or business as usual, it’s not.
Another reason why it is absolutely critical to have the trial televised. I can remember the Watergate TV hearings and the entire country was riveted by the seriousness of the proceedings. The Jan 6 House committee televised hearing were also riveting for everybody who watched them in full. It will be like that only with everyone watching. The very reason for televising the proceedings is so that everybody understands the seriousness.
Remember that Onion headline “man would die fighting to defend what he imagines the Constitution to be”?
Many modern conservatives are like that. They will bleat all day about laws, and yet have never spent 2 minutes even reading a Wikipedia page about them.
They’ll believe whatever pundits tell them to believe.
Witch hunt? Unconstitutional? Politically motivated? Kangaroo court?
Not for one minute will any of those law and order loving, institution-protecting, facts not feelings, crowd consider that Trump is there because of real actual crimes he really did commit.
Criminal trials are different tho. Especially when news agencies are doing nightly breakdowns of how bad this really is. Fox can only cover up so much…
I’ve said it before, religion primes people to believe stupid shit, as long as it’s delivered with conviction.
Talking snake? No problem! Waking on water? You betchya! Kangaroo court? Don’t mind if I do!
Begging people to understand the severity of the threat Trump and his followers pose is a “loser defeatist attitude”? If you genuinely think that anyone still supporting him is going to come out of watching this man on TV thinking less of him, or seeing it as a serious matter instead of some kind of political assassination of their dear leader, then you’ve not been paying attention for years.
How many times have liberals been convinced “surely, this will be the end of him!” only for it to galvanize his base and further cement him as their figurehead? Stop thinking that his base has an even remotely similar worldview to yourself, you could show them all the evidence in the world of his wrongdoing and they will still find a way to pretend it’s not true. This is what I am trying to get people to understand, if you think fascists play by the rules you are sorely mistaken.
but this isnt about his base. I have written them off long ago. this is about the rest of the country. galvanizing them into understanding the seriousness of what this two-bit used car salesman huskster tried (and continues trying) to do to this country is the point.
republicans can not win power with their base alone. this was never about them.
As I replied to another person above, if you think my message was about votes and elections then you’ve misunderstood. This is quite literally a trial about an attempted overthrow of an election, their disdain for democracy is clear as day. The extent of that disdain, and what his base might be willing to do to get him in power regardless is exactly what I am trying to get people not to underestimate. Also, it might be a sobering thought to consider how many cops and soldiers are part of his base.
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Also, it might be a sobering thought to consider how many cops and soldiers are part of his base.
So… bend the knee? These traitors are losing legal battles daily, and it’s all over the news. Let’s keep it rolling.
Stop thinking that his base has an even remotely similar worldview to yourself
Every single person here is fully aware of that. You’re proposing that we, what? Just don’t do anything? And anything that is done on a legal level be hidden from public view?
What is it you’re suggesting?
Begging people to understand the severity of the threat Trump and his followers pose is a “loser defeatist attitude”?
Begging that Trump’s criminal trial is not shown on TV so that people will never understand the critical severity of his crimes, just because you’ve been duped into mindless panic is a loser defeatist attitude. You are letting Trump neofascists bully you into favoring a less strict accountability. A handful of Trump’s followers committing suicide by cop do not pose a threat to the most powerful country in the world and by the end of the trial most people will understand that Treason Trump and other top neofascists are going to jail. Did Al Capone still have many followers after he went to jail? Nope.
His supporters are the cops. His followers are already in office, in courts, in law enforcement, and in the military at every level of each. They are already actively hurting people, indoctrinating children, destroying the environment, criminalizing minorities, brutalizing and killing dissidents, and both passing and enforcing laws to aid them in doing all of the aforementioned.
This is not a mindless panic. Women are having their rights repealed, queer folks are facing increasing violence and threats of imprisonment, and just about every visible minority is facing higher incidence of hate crimes and discrimination. The majority of americans are living paycheck to paycheck, and people can’t afford average rent on average income (let alone minimum wage) in any city in the country. People are fucking starving and dying on the street, and the number one cause of bankruptcy is medical debt which is something that shouldn’t even exist.
The refusal to reconcile reality with this fantasy of a powerful and healthy country is part of what has enabled fascists to ascend once more, and what keeps burying the bar for democrats further underground.
Every time Trump gets put on TV because people like yourself are convinced that this time will finally be his undoing, his base and support grows. The amount of free publicity this fuck has gotten from people that are ostensibly his opponents is staggering. If you keep assuming that laws, ethics, morals, and rules are going to be followed by fascists, you’re in for a rude awakening.
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Okay Ivan. You keep on cowering in fear in the basement while level headed proud Americans do the critical necessary work of protecting our 240 years of democracy, defeating the neofascists, and moving forward with progress.
Ah yes, the critical necessary work of waiting to vote every four years, sitting on your ass hoping fascism will sort itself out, and expecting the institutions you take for granted to protect you. Extremely brave and level headed, not cowardly or delusional in the least. /s
The weird insinuation that I am in any way related to or supportive of Russia is a nice touch, because nothing says “moving forward with progress” like demonizing an entire population, almost all of whom have as little control over their government as you do yours. I’m sure those neofascists are shaking in their boots.
Ah yes, the critical necessary work of waiting to vote every four years
The critical necessary work of putting Treason Trump and the neofascists on trial and televising it so the whole country can see.
sitting on your ass hoping fascism will sort itself out,
You’re the one calling for inaction and fear because the bullies might get upset.
I’m sure those neofascists are shaking in their boots.
This neofascist sure looks like he’s been owned by the libs
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fe792f17-6e1f-494f-bc6b-a9e740f16bf7.jpeg
You are completely wrong. Why focus on idiots who won’t change their mind no matter what? The important voter base are moderates and independents. If you are staunchly Democrat your vote does not matter. If you’re Republican no matter what your vote does not matter. Sad but true. The people you’re so worried about simply don’t matter. If televising the trial convinces people who are on the fence then it’s the right choice. They’re just a small number of people.
If you read what I wrote and thought I was worried about how this would affect votes then you’ve missed the point completely. They do not care about votes or elections, their figurehead is literally on trial for trying to overturn the last one.
It’s not his die-hard magats that need to see this. They are only a majority of Republican voters. Independents are the largest block with Dems and GOP both smaller. It’s people like my dad that have never been forced to look at the details without fox, newsmax etc reframing. This is hard to look at, for anyone. I understand your pessimism.
It’s not pessimism. Fascists are already banning books, criminalizing trans people, reversing environmental protections, outlawing abortion and criminalizing those that seek them, rewriting school curricula with historical revisionism and fascist propaganda to suit their needs, perpetrating hate crimes, discriminating against minorities and political opponents, and their media is cranking out fuel for stochastic terrorism day after day. Hell, on the primary debate stage the other day, the candidates were talking about how they would each approach executing people at the border. Of course there was a layer of euphemism, it was about “lethal force in border security”, but a whole hell of a lot of the people on the receiving end of that are migrants and refugees fleeing the conditions american foreign and economic policy has subjected them to.
I have clearly touched a nerve here because there are a lot of upset people downvoting what I’m saying, but I am not being a cynic or a defeatist, I am begging people to reckon with the reality of what is already happening. As I’ve said repeatedly, this trial is literally about how he incited his supporters to attempt overthrowing an election, and people are in here acting as if all that matters is how this might sway voters.
Fascists do not care about democracy, why do you think the GOP spends as much time as it does gerrymandering and messing with voter eligibility, closing polling stations, and purging rolls? They are not going to be voted away, and they are not going to give a fuck about whatever ethics people are just hoping they will abide by. Rules are seen as an obstacle to be overcome, not a boundary which cannot be crossed.
I said this in another reply but I’m going to repeat it here: ask yourself how much of his base are cops and soldiers, and then think about who it is that you’re expecting to step in when his base takes another swing.
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To be clear, my issue was never about whether or not Trump should be put on trial, but rather the terrible idea of televising it and turning it into an opportunity for him to promote himself. I do think he should face consequences for his actions, but people keep putting this sack of shit on TV, doing his publicity for him, and then being shocked when it turns out in his favor every single time. No matter the verdict, because of how much of an event this will be, he will most likely come out the other end with greater and stronger support.
He will probably be found guilty, but what I am trying to illustrate is that he could not ask for a better stage to sell himself as the embattled, targeted, brave leader in the war against the deep state. Think of how often he speaks to his base about the nebulous “they” that are against him, “they” want to silence him, “they” want to put him in jail because he’s telling it like it is and threatening the woke agenda or whatever the fuck. People here are convinced this will be the ultimate comeuppance, but his supporters are going to see their saint being persecuted by his adversaries.
So many in here are treating this like a victory lap, but it’s a fucking campaign ad. If he’s somehow barred from running, you know who I think will win the republican nomination? Whoever pledges to pardon him as soon as they enter office.
I tend to agree with you on most points you have made. Just one point of fact why this trial is so important: it is a State trial, and no president can pardon him. In fact, it would be difficult even in deep red Georgia to get him a pardon.
Your problem is that you’re seeing things as they really are whereas the people down voting you and telling you that you’re a pessimist are in denial and you’re ruining their vibes
I’m having difficulty finding a source because the information environment is thoroughly saturated on this topic. But IIRC, this has been tried before. There was a study where people who were thorough Trump supporters, the whole nine yards, when made to roleplay a mock jury and presented with the body of evidence available to the researchers at that point on one of Trump’s crimes, still nonetheless felt they had no choice but to face a reality that they didn’t want to believe.
Narcissists and liars thrive when they can dominate the narrative, and flounder when they can’t. The Court system is designed around that. Hopefully it’s up to the task.
They’re looking for someone that will let them get away with doing the awful things they want to do to people. They’re never going to change their minds about that. Ever. So we just… let them make that happen by letting them destroy democracy and law?
Let them “take action”. They’ve already seen what happened to “the loyalist” that helped with Jan 6th and they’re not swayed. The sooner they’re in prison, the better off we all are.
I don’t know about that. You should listen to the Knowledge Fight episodes featuring the Alex Jones trial. I have a feeling it’s going to be something like that.
I agree, it will depend on the judge and how strict they are.
I’m just gonna ask you to take a moment and think about the gulf of disparity between these two figures in real terms. One ran a rather successful conspiracy grift show and the other is the former president, on trial for inciting others to attempt overthrowing an election. The fact that you’re even comparing the two as if people will drop Trump as readily as they did Jones, when he is still the front runner for candidacy by an enormous margin while gearing up to go on trial for treason is exactly the kind of underestimation I’m talking about.
You think trump can get a better attorney than Alex Jones??? Lol dude is toxic as a client and every capable atty knows it.
I mean Alex Jones’s attorneys didn’t fare much better when they accidentally leaked all of Jones’s texts to the prosecution.
It’s less that and more two self absorbed narcissists who have been drinking their own Kool aid for WAY too long.
I quite agree. Giving a TV personality airtime is a dangerous gamble, and I’m not sure of the payoff the courts are looking for.
I really feel the important part of this trial is whether at the end he’s barred from the ballots. If he’s allowed to run it doesn’t really matter who wins. His candidacy alone would show the rule of law and democracy has failed. That’s the final, dim hope i cling to, that he will be barred from running. If he isn’t, and runs? Thats when i will know for sure it is already as you said, that fascism is already here and democracy is dead.
Even if he’s barred, I don’t imagine anyone winning the GOP primary without a pledge to pardon him once elected. Beyond that, it seems that people really do not want to consider the very real possibility of a coup or jail break. Every time these fucks escalate there’s a chorus of wilfully ignorant liberals bleating about “who could have seen this coming???” and every time there have been people like me begging them to take the threat seriously and to stop imagining there will be some moment when they finally see reason and accept defeat. The democratic strategy for opposing fascism seems to be just never losing another election, and somehow think throwing their most vulnerable constituents under the bus and catering to republicans and the mythical undecided voter is going to grow their lead enough to make that happen.
I’m saying all this not to frighten people but to try to wake them up to the reality of the threat we face, because right now we’re sleepwalking into fascists seizing power.
I agree. As one of the Democrats left behind in their rightward lurching i feel (quite painfully, tbh) how the party seems more interested in bringing moderate Republicans into the fold more than they want folks like me who have been here all along. Their practice of giving money to Republican extremists with the express purpose of running against them in the general tells me they wish to use fascism to their benefit rather than stomp it out as they claim.
